Declared Outlaw.Banished from home.No future.But Asgrim is going to prove them all wrong.Read the medieval dark fantasy horror tale that Amazon voted a 2014 Breakthrough Novel Award Quarter-Finalist!Banned for killing the son of the jarl, Viking warband leader Asgrim seeks redemption and a way home again. But no man could hope to raise the princely blood debt placed upon him...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Call of Duty meets Call of Cthulhu.A cave in Afghanistan. A squad of Marines. And an ancient evil that should have stayed buried.2016, Helmand Province: Sergeant Wyatt Hood’s routine mission to clear an insurgent cave system goes sideways when his Marines stumble into something far worse than the Taliban — a lost underground city, a monstrous Guardian of tentacles and hunger, and a cosmic artifa...

The Awakened World of 2053—a shattered land of magic, Fey, monsters . . . and world-ending secrets.What difference does a week make?I'm Angie Ritter, former army mage and recovering headcase. Seven days ago, I was struggling to survive without my magic. Now I'm on the run with a family of werewolf super-soldiers. Not gonna lie. I'm in trouble—a lot of trouble: a cult of dragon-worshipping fanatics wants to cut my heart out, vampire assassins hunt me, and ev...

Everyone wants me dead: A demon, a vampire lord, even a dragon. Now, a new enemy wants even more . . .The war we feared has come, and leading the invading army is the only remaining dragon, the "Black Death." If it's not stopped, the dragon will slaughter thousands. I'm Angie Ritter, former army mage and the first source mage to be born in centuries. I might be able to stop the dragon.If I can learn to control my new magic. If I can master the ancient entit...

‘Here she was, waiting as patiently as she could for Smokey and the men to take her home. “Oh thank heavens! They’re here,” she said excitedly, watching the dust billow in the horizon. Little did Damaris realise just how much her world was going to be tipped upside down.’ A captivating new story which embodies fiction writing at its best. An easy read with vivid imagery and enticing characters. - An exhilarating tale with twists throughout the whole book - God bound and profound - Watch as...

Child-molesting priests, embezzled church treasures, philandering ministers and rabbis, even church-endorsed pyramid schemes that defraud gullible parishioners of millions of dollars: for the past decade, clergy misconduct has seemed continually to be in the news.Is there something about religious organizations that fosters such misbehavior? Bad Pastors presents a range of new perspectives and solidly grounded data on pastoral abuse, investigating sexual misconduct,...

To the students who inspired this magic: Anna and Reggie Rapasaurus was born from a dream sparked while reading aloud to you. May every child who opens this book embrace the wonder and joy of discovery, and may the magic of shared stories live on in your hearts.

TV consumption is on the rise, but consumers are viewing and experiencing TV in a vastly different way than they were even 5 years ago. TV viewership has radically transformed from a passive experience to a more engaged, interactive, and on-demand experience. Content producers will not only have to continue to create quality entertainment products, but they will now need to consider ways to a) enhance the viewing experience, b) leverage social media to promote their properties, and c) dist...

As defined by conservation biologist Thomas Fleishner, natural history is “a practice of intentional, focused receptivity to the more-than-human world . . . one of the oldest continuous human traditions.” Seldom is this idea so clearly reflected as in classic works of American fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.John Cullen Gruesser’s edited volume Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction features essays by prominent litera...

A secret power. The revival of magic. An ancient evil stirs.Twenty-year-old university dropout Cassie Rogan has returned to her small British Columbia home. Tortured by an accident that killed her parents, she drifts, failing life at every turn. When an impossibly localized lightning storm hits the surrounding forest, Cassie discovers her supernatural side.After centuries of atrophy, the forces of magic are flowing back into our world, and Cassie can wield ...

I was five when the dragons first appeared . . . and the lights went out for good.Now, eighteen years after the cataclysmic appearance of the four great dragons over Mount Fuji, humanity shares a shattered Earth with the Fey—fairies, elves, and other supernatural creatures. Trust is short, magic is common, and each day is a struggle for survival in the Awakened World of 2053.I'm Angie Ritter, a former army mage who can't cast spells anymore. I have some iss...

On dragons' wings, war begins.Magic has returned to Earth. A year ago, the dark elves breached the interstellar veil between our world and theirs. They slaughtered scores of innocents in the first battle of a war between magic and technology.Then they vanished.In the year since, Elizabeth Chambers has trained alongside Cassie "Starlight" Rogan in the Special Forces unit known as Task Force Devil. Their mission: to monitor the interstellar portal where the dark elves...